Tom Van Hassel, RPh, MPA, is director of pharmacy at Yuma Regional Medical Center. He attended Ferris State University in Michigan, graduating in 1976, and received his MPA from Western Michigan University in 1982. Tom completed a pharmacy fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania Wharton School of Business in 1991. He was president of the Arizona Society of Health-System Pharmacists in 1997 and president of the Arizona State Board of Pharmacy in 2009. Tom is an adjunct professor of pharmacy at several colleges of pharmacy.